Quantum optical effective-medium theory for loss-compensated metamaterials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Amooghorban, Ehsan ^a,b,c   Mortensen, N Asger ^a   Wubs, Martijn ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EFFECTIVE-MEDIUM THEORIES; GAIN MATERIALS; METALLIC COMPONENT; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; QUANTUM STATE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; UNIT CELLS;

QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEISMIC WAVES;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84876155836     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.153602     Document Type: Article

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